TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

“Superblocks is an accelerant for building internal apps.” Menezes says he thinks about the competitive landscape in three ways: build-it-yourself, legacy incumbents and low-code startups. “This … fundraise enables us to invest in products to meet the immense customer demand we’re seeing. ”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Its digitally-native approach can save pet parents up to $750 a year on healthcare expenses, Zubin Bhettay, co-founder and CEO of Fuzzy, told TechCrunch. Bhettay is also seeing the larger incumbents focus here, as well as marketing dollars, which he considers validation that the market is shifting to the digitalization of pet care.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”. trillion retail industry at a massive inflection point.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Strategic angel investors include Phil Bentley, CEO of Mitie, and Naman Budhdeo, co-founder and CEO of TripStack and FlightNetwork. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The startup will continue to look for ways to expand its partner network of hardware and software companies across the globe, Luke Wilson, founder and CEO of ManageXR told TechCrunch. Its competitors include incumbent mobile device management companies, which build similar tools for mobile phones and laptops, and some device manufacturers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. If they win, we win,” said Sebastián Núñez Castro, CEO and co-founder of Geopagos.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Co-founder of Owned Outcomes Krupa Srinivas explores the value of fear in an entrepreneur’s journey as she describes partnering with a US healthcare intermediary to solve the problem of cataloguing hospital supplies. Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

More than 100 web3-enabled games launch. Perhaps the trend of the year, generative machine learning models like ChatGPT, Dall-E & others have invigorated software founders & incumbents alike - both of which are re-imaging SaaS with ML as an essential product component. The ML stack folds into the classic data stack.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After finding it, the three co-founders together built a service for managing passwords, API keys and digital certificates, which evolved into a fully fledged business — Akeyless — over the course of the next several years. If Akeyless’s co-founders have concerns, they didn’t show it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

There’s been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations. “With the capital, we will continue to focus on engagement and adoption, collaboration, governance, lineage, and on APIs and SDKs to enable us to be open and extensible,” Sangani said via email.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

This has led to hyper-growth in the headless CMS category,” Oliver Thomas, a co-founder and partner at Expedition, told TechCrunch via email. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. “Kontent.ai has been a first mover and innovator in the space.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The company wasn’t actively in the market, according to CEO and co-founder Igor Senra, but was approached by existing backer Greenoaks and other investors. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

to enable customers to make online payments using their bank accounts. Since its founding, it’s attracted interest from investors including Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Amplo, Pareto Holdings, Quiet Capital and Shutterstock co-founder and CEO Jon Oringer. .” Link claims to be one of the first companies in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

“The rule is very confusing and strange,” said a fintech founder on condition of anonymity to avoid upsetting RBI officials. ” the founder added. Amazon Pay, Paytm Postpaid and Ola Money are cautious, too, because many believe that they might be impacted as well.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our goal is to enable digital commerce throughout LatAm, and BNPL in Mexico is our first step towards that vision,” said CEO and co-founder Kyle Miller. On top of this, the accelerating adoption of banking and mobile e-commerce in LatAm has created an environment for a breakout company in the space today.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Founders : Ahmed Ismail, a second-time founder who has worked for Goldman Sachs and Barclays, is the CEO. Location : Khartoum, Sudan. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Most of those are product buys to drive or accelerate revenue growth with the secondary benefit of getting new talent, Ruark said. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Pinduoduo is one of the first companies to successfully create a social shopping experience online, and has accelerated the transition of commerce from offline to online in China. Pinduoduo’s team purchase is often compared to Groupon in the US because they both enable a form of group buying. But the models are actually very different.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education (a leading edtech seed fund in Europe with portfolio companies like Aula, Unibuddy, and BibliU) . Integration between different edtech apps?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

So I talked to Varo CEO and founder Colin Walsh to find out if it was worth it. This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. In 2020, digital bank Varo became the first-ever all-digital nationally chartered U.S. His answer?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e.,

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. Banking is a ubiquitous but hard to crack industry.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The technique trains a system across multiple devices or servers holding data without ever exchanging it, enabling collaborators to build a common system without sharing data. But a new startup, DynamoFL , hopes to take on the incumbents with a federated learning platform that focuses on performance, ostensibly without sacrificing privacy.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. trillion in deposits.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders?

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Recent legislation will also significantly accelerate the existing market trends. Sales enablement to better equip contractors to close large ticket projects with detailed ROI and performance reports (similar to what exists for solar today). Marketing enablement by aggregating lots of hard-to-acquire data (e.g.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Here’s who we interviewed: Clara Brenner , co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Rachel Holt , co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. David Lawee , founder and general partner, CapitalG. Clara Brenner, co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Dave Clark , partner, Expa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

According to James Zhang, its co-founder and CEO, Jambo wants to onboard millions of users to web3 in Africa through its applications. Many web2 incumbents or even web3 are having a $100-200 user acquisition costs so we can lower that by order of magnitude by directly incentivizing the end-user.”. The last bit is play-to-earn games.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

After inking deals with Amazon and Walmart, the Quidsi and Jet.com co-founder aims to launch a “more equitable” city in the desert. At Disrupt, co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan will speak to the milestone, the challenges in between and if exclusivity can disrupt community. with Marc Lore (Wonder Group).

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI, in conversation with a16z’s David George. [00:36] 4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? Will AI take all the design jobs?

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